# absinthe
## English
### Alternative forms

* absinth

### Etymology

* (wormwood; figuratively bitterness, sorrow): From Middle English absinthe.
* (liquor): From Modern French absinthe.
Both from Middle French absinthe, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”). Doublet of absinthium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæb.sɪnθ/, /ˈæb.sænθ/, /ˈæb.sæ̃θ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

absinthe (countable and uncountable, plural absinthes)
* The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood. [from 1350–1470]
* (figurative) Bitterness; sorrow. [from 1350–1470]
* A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs. [from mid 19th c.]
    Synonym: (colloquial) green fairy
** 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe‎, Penguin, →ISBN:Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
* A moderate yellow green. [from late 19th c.] absinthe green:
    Synonym: absinthe green
* (US) Sagebrush.

#### Usage notes

* (wormwood): Absinth is the preferred spelling of this sense only.

#### Derived terms

* absinthate
* absinthean
* absinthe green
* absinthe oil
* absinthe spoon
* absinthe yellow
* absinthial
* absinthian
* absinthiana
* absinthiate
* absinthiated
* absinthic
* absinthiin
* absinthin
* absinthine
* absinthism
* absinthismic
* absinthites
* absinthium
* absinthol

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/absinthe
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absinthe”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

### Further reading

* absinthe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Beshtian, enhabits

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin absinthium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ap.sɛ̃t/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

absinthe f (plural absinthes)
* wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
* absinthe
    Synonym: fée verte

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: աբսենտ (absent)
* → Belarusian: абсэнт (absent)
* → Bulgarian: абсент (absent)
* → Catalan: absenta
** → Spanish: absenta
* → Czech: absinth
* → Danish: absint
* → English: absinthe
* → Finnish: absintti
* → Greek: αψέντι (apsénti)
* → Galician: asente
* → German: Absinth
** → Estonian: absint
** → Hungarian: abszint
* → Hebrew: אבסינת (absint)
* → Japanese: アブサン (abusan)
* → Korean: 압생트 (apsaengteu)
* → Latvian: absints
* → Lithuanian: absentas
* → Macedonian: апсинт (apsint)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: absint
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: absint
* → Occitan: absinti
* → Polish: absynt
* → Portuguese: absinto
* → Romanian: absint
* → Russian: абсе́нт (absént)
* → Serbo-Croatian: absint / апсинт
* → Swedish: absint
* → Turkish: absint
* → Ukrainian: абсе́нт (absént)
* → Yiddish: אַבסינט (absint)

### Further reading

* “absinthe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* absinthe on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$